[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Re: pratiyogI-jnAna being mandatory for abhAva-jnAna

[Sudhanshu Shekhar]

Namaste Venkat ji.

2) And one has knowledge of videshiyatA because he has knowledge of *its*
> pratiyogi, kArNATakIyatva.
>

Very nice point.


> If the pratiyogitAvacChedaka  of the abhAva jnAna had been eskimotvam,
> then one can argue that one can argue that it is possible for one to have
> ekimo abhAva jnAna without eskimo jnAna.
>

Absolutely. And since he does not
eskimo-tva-avachchhinna-pratiyogitA-nirUpita-jnAna, if there is even one
foreigner in the society, the person would not be able to have
eskimo-abhAva-jnAna. He does not know the eskimo as an eskimo, he knows the
eskimo as a foreigner.

Namaste Ananta Chaitanya ji.

//It appears to me that that the person has no visheShAbhavajnAna here at
all.//

I think vishesha-abhAva-jnAna is pretty much there and pratiyogI-jnAna is
also there. Only thing, the pratiyogitA-avachchhedaka is different. While
the pratiyogitA-avachchhedaka is videshIyatva i.e. kArnaTika-bhinnatva, SSS
ji has confused it to be Eskimo-tva.

//He only knows tadbhedakUTAbhAva or
kArNATakIya-bhinnatva-avachChinna-pratiyogitAka-abhAva.//

True.

Regards.